Here are the statistics for the use of network information servers for
November 1994. This includes World-Wide Web, Gopher, Qi/Ph Directory,
and CMS View. CMS View is available only to CMS users - either using
their own userid or by logging on to one of the anonymous View
userids. The other services are available to workstations with campus
ethernet access or terminals on multi-user systems with appropriate
software. Most of these services are available world-wide over the
Internet, although some data is restricted to UK users.
Web clients (like Mosaic and Netscape) can use all of these services,
Gopher clients can use all but the Web services, and Ph and Eudora
clients can use Qi/Ph services. (We distribute versions of most of
these for Macintosh, Windows, and some Unix platforms.) Tracking Web
client use is the most complex because of the number of protocols they
support. A document on the Web server can refer the client to another
Web document, a Gopher item, or Qi/Ph search without the client user's
awareness.
The transaction counts are counts of Gopher and View menu picks - when
someone picks an item from a View or Gopher menu that counts as one
transaction. A transaction could lead to a document, a search, or
another menu. Web transactions are for documents and searches. What
the Web user sees as a single page might involve multiple server
accesses. Qi/Ph transactions are searches and requests for additional
information.
Web traffic continues to grow while Gopher and View remain steady.
The very large jump in Qi traffic resulted from a change in the CMS
WHOIS command to use Qi for simple queries. This yields faster
response and much reduced overhead.
Gopher Server (gopher.uky.edu):
142,579 total transactions, -2%
34,050 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu), -10%
33,480 UK campus network workstations, +2%
75,049 from the Internet, +1%
World-Wide Web Server (www.uky.edu):
104,353 total transactions, +35%
2,962 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu) +55%
41,611 UK campus network workstations, +31%
59,762 from the Internet, +38%
Qi/Ph Directory (ukcc.uky.edu):
88,627 total transactions, +50%
46,357 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu), +478%
5,335 UK campus network workstations, +12%
36,935 from the Internet, -20%
View (ukcc.uky.edu only):
97,264 total transactions, -4%
5,320 from anonymous View ids, +1%
The servers are used 24 hours each day from all over the world, but most
use is from 8:00 am until 8:00 pm, with a concentration from 1:00 pm
until 5:00 pm Eastern Time.
The Hit Parade
These were the most used items on the Gopher and View services. (Some
of this activity is from Web clients.) These figures are total trans-
actions with a daily average.
Approx. Avg.
Gopher View Total Daily
1. Weather 8,786 5,994 14,780 485.6
2. Classes&Registrar 4,708 3,212 7,920 260.2
3. Grants 4,186 2,856 7,042 231.3
4. Netnews 3,180 2,169 5,349 175.7
5. Campus Directory* 2,771 1,890 4,661 153.1
6. Jobs 2,172 1,482 3,654 120.0
7. Library 2,178 1,486 3,664 120.4
8. Reference 1,853 1,264 3,117 102.4
9. Announcements 1,027 701 1,728 56.8
10. Computing 680 464 1,144 37.6
11. Community College 642 438 1,080 35.5
12. Daily Digest 420 287 707 23.2
13. Kentucky Geo Survey 390 266 656 21.6
14. Manuals 394 269 663 21.8
15. Athletics 279 190 469 15.4
16. HRS 171 117 288 9.5
17. TIGER 145 99 244 8.0
18. Lexington Campus Sec 134 91 225 7.4
19. Software 132 90 222 7.3
20. A&S 106 72 178 5.9
* These campus directory accesses do not count access through the Ph/Qi
server. The activity of the WHOIS directory server isn't counted.
These were the most popular items on the Web server. Web client access
to the Gopher server is counted above.
1. ArtSource 22,169
2. Campus Guide 7,114
3. Kentucky Atlas 4,646
4. Weather 2,668
5. Kentucky Net Guide 2,483
6. Medicine 1,579
7. Computing Center 1,110
8. A&S 896
9. MCFACTS Center 727
10. King Library Press 547
11. Regulations 461
12. UK Staff 397
13. Nursing 261
The primary campus Gopher and Qi/Ph servers are running on the IBM 3090
(gopher.uky.edu or ukcc.uky.edu) under VM/ESA. The primary Web server
is running on the Convex Metasystem (www.uky.edu) under Unix. Additional
Web service is provided by the IBM 3090 VM/ESA system.